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Farm-Waste-Derived Nanoring Coating to Enhance Urea Use in Rice Crops

A recent study published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering addresses this issue by creating a sustainable fertilizer with a jute grafted silica nanoring for regulating urea release and increasing the yield of rice plants.

29 Sep 2022

Halloysite Nanotubes Grown in ‘Tree Rings’ via Easy Method

A new study presents an efficient strategy to fabricate an ordered architecture of HNTs. The clay nanotubes were aligned on a glass substrate via a magnetic rotor-assisted drying of their aqueous dispersion

28 Sep 2022

Role of Temperature on Charge Transport At Graphene–Ferritin Biomolecular Junctions

Although most studies ignore the interactions between a biomolecule and electrodes, a new study available in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces focused on evaluating the net CT across the graphene-ferritin biomolecular tunnel junction.

27 Sep 2022

Green Synthesis of Antifungal TiO2 Nanoparticles from Papaya Shell

A new study describes the biosynthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles using papaya shell extract, whose antioxidant activity was tested.

27 Sep 2022

Single Dose Nanovaccine Developed to Help Tackle Shigella

An article published in Molecular Pharmaceutics presented an extension of a previous work that demonstrated the stabilization of “invasion plasmid antigen C” (IpaC) protein by using Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 (Sd1)-based recombinant to induce immune responses in BALB/c mice.

23 Sep 2022

Using Fullerenes to Understand Natural Enzyme Evolution

Researchers demonstrate how functionalized fullerene nanostructures could mimic the activities of natural enzymes in biological systems.

22 Sep 2022

Eco-Friendly Herbicide Delivery Using Biodegradable Nanoparticles

A recent study published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces focuses on creating biodegradable and light-responsive polymeric nanoparticles under moderate conditions through polyesterification.

21 Sep 2022

Have Cell Membrane Coated Nanoparticles Been Wrongly Understood?

Recently, scientists analyzed several polymeric core nanoparticles using the fluorescence quenching method and demonstrated that some of the observed core-shell structures were actually artifacts created by the staining process.

21 Sep 2022

Improved Sensing to Endocrine Disrupting Pollutants in Water

Researchers described a unique approach for rationally tailoring hollow and porous bimetallic electrodes made of MXene with outstanding electrocatalytic activity to sense endocrine-disrupting pollutants in water.

21 Sep 2022

New Strategy To Help Chitosan Nanocrystals Target Cells

An article published in the journal Carbohydrate Polymers presented a new methodology to functionalize the chitosan nanocrystals with peptides and amino acids via solid phase peptide synthesis.

20 Sep 2022